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Definition of Privateersman
1. Noun. An officer or crew member of a privateer.
Generic synonyms: Crew Member, Crewman, Officer, Ship's Officer
Specialized synonyms: Hawkins, Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkins, Sir John Hawkyns
Definition of Privateersman
1. n. An officer or seaman of a privateer.
Definition of Privateersman
1. Noun. (nautical) The captain or member of the crew of a privateer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Privateersman
Literary usage of Privateersman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem: The Record of a Brilliant Era of by Ralph Delahaye Paine (1912)
"... privateersman (1776-178)2) THE United States navy, with its wealth of splendid
tradition, has few more commanding figures than Captain Jonathan Haraden, ..."
2. The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem: The Record of a Brilliant Era of by Ralph Delahaye Paine (1912)
"... privateersman (1776-1782) THE United States navy, with its wealth of splendid
tradition, has few more commanding figures than Captain Jonathan Haraden, ..."
3. A History of American Privateers by Edgar Stanton Maclay (1900)
"IN following the career of Andrew Sherburne, a boy privateersman in the Revolution,
the reader will become familiar with a phase of privateering of which ..."
4. The Marblehead Manual by Samuel Roads, Nathan Bowen, Francis G. Selman, Edward Bowen (1883)
"... privateersman CONFINED ON BOARD BRITISH PRISON SHIPS, 1813, 1814, 1815.
The journal from which the following extracts were taken was kept by Francis ..."
5. On Hazardous Service: Scouts and Spies of the North and South by William Gilmore Beymer (1912)
"... privateersman IN Toronto, Canada, one September day in 1864, two men, rounding
a street corner from opposite directions, met suddenly face to face, ..."
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